Romney hits Obama on welfare, again
A screenshot from a pro-Romney campaign ad, "Right Choice" that aired in swing states Wednesday.
/ Romney for President/YouTubeThe new ad says, "Since 1996, welfare recipients were required to work...on July 12th, President Obama quietly ended the work requirement gutting welfare reform."
The ad ends with a narrator saying, ""Mitt Romney's plan for a stronger middle class will put work back in welfare."
This is the second time this month the Romney campaign has launched an offensive on the president's executive order allowing states waivers for welfare, saying the president is rolling back the federal work requirement.
Independent fact checkers, however, note that Romney's claim in his previous ads that the president "drop[s] work requirements" is false and "over-the-top."
The new twist in this ad is that it cites an editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch that criticizes the president on the executive order. "Sounds like the White House wants to let states get more people into work sooner, doesn't it? Nuts. If you want to get more people to work, you don't loosen the requirements -- you tighten them," the ad says, quoting the newspaper's editorial from August 15.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced the change in July, which says waivers don't skirt work rules but allow states to "test alternative and innovative strategies" to meet work requirements. As governor in 2005, Mitt Romney signed a letter asking the Senate, which was debating welfare reauthorization, for "increased waiver authority."
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Hypocrites rejoice!!!
Than makes Mitt Romney a LIAR! Again, there is nothing else to say...
The rest is just the frosting on the cake concering the work for welfare changes supposedly at the request of some Governors.
They couldn't have been from the GOP because he does nothing for them or as far as that goes, for anyone else but himself.
Romney requested the same type of waiver when governor of Mass.
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein pointed out the need for the press and media to inform especially in this time that "The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossiblefor the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges."
Regarding the Press:
"We understand the values of mainstream journalists, including the effort to report both sides of a story. But abalanced treatment of an unbalanced phenomenon distorts reality. If the political dynamics of Washington areunlikely to change anytime soon, at least we should change the way that reality is portrayed to the public.Our advice to the press: Don't seek professional safety through the even-handed, unfiltered presentation ofopposing views. Which politician is telling the truth? Who is taking hostages, at what risks and to what ends?Also, stop lending legitimacy to Senate filibusters by treating a 60-vote hurdle as routine. The framerscertainly didn't intend it to be. Report individual senators' abusive use of holds and identify every time theminority party uses a filibuster to kill a bill or nomination with majority support.Look ahead to the likely consequences of voters' choices in the November elections. How would thecandidates govern? What could they accomplish? What differences can people expect from a unifiedRepublican or Democratic government, or one divided between the parties?In the end, while the press can make certain political choices understandable, it is up to voters to decide. "
Rommunism: socialism and welfare for the rich
The fact of the matter is, President Obama and HHS Secretary do not have the authority to grant waivers, regardless who is asking for them.
The law that President Clinton signed and was passed by a GOP House and Senate, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, does not allow anyone to grant states waivers for the work requirements.
President Obama and HHS Secretary do not have the authority to grant states waivers.
The so called Independent fact checkers need to answer this question. Does President Obama and HHS Secretary have the authority to grant states waivers?
The answer is a big fat "NO", they do not have this authority.
It does not matter who is requesting the waiver, because the President does not have the authority to grant it.
State Governor's should be asking the House to write a new law asking for waivers, or a more specific proposal that should be debated and voted on in the House, then the Senate and if the President wishes he could sign it, if it passes Congress first.
This is how are government works. There are not exceptions. We live in a Representative Republic, we do not have a king that makes these type of decisions or choices.
For those on the left, think about it, would you want a Republican President outlawing abortion without the consent of congress?